Make an Avocado into 15 Different Dishes

As our Editor in Chief mentioned recently on Twitter, we'll put a slice of alligator pear on pretty much anything (#goodasbutter indeed). But this fruit's popularity in the summertime--"avocado" has been in the top search terms of bonappetit.com for weeks now--spurred us to find more creative ways to cook and bake with it. So we called on our staff's right-brain thinkers and on the far corners of the Internet to bring you 15 ways to use it, from creamy soup to nutty ice cream.

Speaking of nutty, the far corners of the Internet also revealed that the fruit's name comes from the Nahuatl word ahuacatl, which means "testicle." Bet the Aztecs got some joke mileage out of that one.